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Obama Tweaks U.S. Vision For Fight Against Terrorism
May 24, 2013 | NPR · President Obama discussed America's counter-terrorism strategy — including the use of drones and the prison at Guantanamo Bay — during an address at the National Defense University on Thursday. He rejected the idea that the country can fight an open-ended "global war on terror."
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Political Attacks Ramp Up In U.S. Senate Race In Mass.
May 24, 2013 | NPR · In Massachusetts, what's been a relatively lackluster campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry is heating up. Veteran Democratic Rep. Ed Markey is running against Republican Gabriel Gomez, a businessman and former Navy SEAL. Gomez is a political newcomer.
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Documentary Introduces The Man Behind WikiLeaks
May 24, 2013 | NPR · David Greene talks to filmmaker Alex Gibney about the new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. In 2006, Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks and encouraged anyone in the world to pass on information that might expose government secrets.
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Job Searching While Black: What's Behind The Unemployment Gap?
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Income and wealth inequality is just about as American as baseball and apple pie. And although the economy has improved in the last few years, the unemployment rate for black Americans is about double that for whites.
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Week In News: Obama's Foreign Policy Pitch
May 25, 2013 | NPR · This past week, President Obama laid out the foreign policy objectives for the remainder of his time in office, a speech that included his wish to end not just the war in Afghanistan but the "war on terror." Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent with The Atlantic.
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Is the Espionage Act Outdated?
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution about the Espionage Act. This Word War I-era legislation has been used more frequently in recent times to prosecute government employees who leak information to the press, but the limits set by the act are poorly defined for our modern age.
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Then The Curtain Opened: The Bracing Impact Of Stravinsky's 'Rite'
May 25, 2013 | NPR · The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance.
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Political Takeaways: Headaches For The White House
May 19, 2013 | NPR · Controversies dominated this past week's political headlines, leaving the Obama White House on the defensive, trying to contain any lasting damage. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mara Liasson.
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Turkey Arrests Nine In Investigation Of Deadly Bombings
May 12, 2013 — In Turkey, officials have arrested nine people in connection to what authorities say were two car bombs that killed 46 people near the Syrian border Saturday. Turkish officials say the suspects are Turkish civilians who are loyal to the Syrian regime.
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Kurdish Militants Begin Historic Withdrawal From Turkey
May 8, 2013 — In a landmark first step, thousands of militant Kurdish fighters of the PKK are pulling out of Turkey and into northern Iraq. There's cautious optimism about the process, which has failed before. Kurds say unless Turkey reforms its policy toward Kurds, the militants won't disarm completely.
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Don't Call It 'Turkish' Coffee, Unless, Of Course, It Is
Apr 27, 2013 — Throughout the region that was once the Ottoman empire, people make coffee pretty much the same way: using coffee beans ground into a fine powder, then boiled in a little brass pot. But ordering "Turkish" coffee today doesn't go over well in some Balkan or eastern Mediterranean countries that have some lingering anti-Turkish feelings.
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Students Killed As Mortar Slams Into Syrian University
Mar 28, 2013 — At least 10 students died when the shell fell on an outdoor cafe at Damascus University. Meanwhile, Turkey rejected reports that it forcibly repatriated hundreds of Syrian refugees.
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In A Long And Bloody War, A Potential Breakthrough
Mar 21, 2013 — The jailed leader of the Kurdish rebels says it's a "new era" and calls for a cease-fire in a war against Turkey that has lasted for nearly three decades.
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'Huge Explosion' At Turkey-Syria Border, Says NPR Correspondent At Scene
Feb 11, 2013 — A car exploded, killing at least several people and wounding many more, according to news reports. NPR's Deborah Amos, who was at the border crossing, says the blast caused panic.
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Turkish Left-Wing Group Claims Responsibility For U.S. Embassy Blast
Feb 2, 2013 — The radical group posted a photo of the alleged suicide bomber on its website Saturday, calling the blast "an act of of self-sacrifice."
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Syrian Crisis: Turkey Getting Patriot Missiles, Some U.S. Troops To Operate Them
Dec 14, 2012 — Germany and the Netherlands are also sending such defense systems, which are being put in place to defend against possible missile firings from Syria. The move ramps up the U.S. role in guarding against a widening of the crisis.
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NATO Approves Turkey's Request For Patriot Defense Missiles
Dec 4, 2012 — NATO said the missiles, as well as the radar system, will only be used for defensive purposes — that is they will only be used to intercept mortars once they have crossed into Turkish territory.
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A Syrian Tank Shells Turkey, Yet The Response Is Silence. Why?
Dec 3, 2012 — Some Syrian military attacks on Turkey have drawn a harsh response. But in an incident over the weekend, the Turks chose to play it down. The episode shows the complicated nature of the battle.
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